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Originally Posted by nomesque
Still big over here in the very low, very un-mobile socioeconomic groups. ie, the people who've been poor and ill-educated for a couple of generations now, and they're stuck in a cycle of poor nutrition and child abuse/neglect. From what I can see, that is. The kids who do it most probably know the effects and don't care. *sniff*
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I just read a story - An Ex-mas Feast - in "Say You're One of Them" by Uwem Akpan that included this glue-sniffing as part of the story. Very stark, realistic story of poverty and survival in Nigeria(I think...didn't really say).